Famous quotes containing the words brother and/or earl:
“It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)
“There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, one’s hopes or one’s fears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)